Returning mineral rights to the land owners WV get on board

Are you a landowner who has paid the property taxes yearly, maintained the land, and supported the community in which the land lies only to find you own but a portion, or worse, none, of the sub-surface mineral rights?  Are the sub-surface reservations a 100 years old or more?  Do you consider this an outrage that heirs of an a party who owned YOUR land over 100 years ago can rob YOUR heirs and YOU of the full compensation due you for leasing your lands?  Do you know friends or neighbors who are in this unhappy situation?  I am sure you do as mineral rights reservations of 50-100% are frightfully common in Pennsylvania.

 

If so, please contact your senator asking them to support Senate Bill 445 that Senator Yaw of Bradford County is trying to get to the floor for a vote.  Please see his website where SB 445 is explained.  BTW, his is a terrific, information packed site, one of the best I have ever seen by a government official.  I urge you to explore it and to shoot him an email thanking him for his efforts on our behalf.

http://senatorgeneyaw.com/legislation.htm

 

In addition to supporting Senator Yaw we need to contact our respective state senators to ask that they support SB 445.  I have contacted my senator down here in Dauphin County and have emailed several landowners from my area asking them to do the same.  This is important for the state as well because much of the state forest and game lands have their mineral rights reserved by a family of lumber barons from a 100 years ago.  These heirs own mineral rights to 27,000 acres of Pa land.  A hundred years ago their forefathers stripped and raped the forests of its lumber and now they want to continue the practice beneath our feet!  Many land owners in Clinton Co. have zero sub-surface ownership rights and have O & G goons climbing all over their land without any compensation, or I might add PERMISSION, to the landowner who pays the property taxes and maintains that land!  Can you imagine how violated and helpless they must feel?

 

Here is a link where you can easily locate your State Senator:

http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/findyourlegislator/i...

 

PLEASE, I URGE YOU TO INFORM AS MANY AS YOU CAN OF THIS BILL AND REQUEST THEY CONTACT THEIR RESPECTIVE STATE SENATORS.  WE CANGET OUR VOICES HEARD!

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Mosley on December 3, 2011 at 4:46am

In West Virginia there is a property tax at the county level for oil, gas, and mineral rights. It is property, belonging to the purchaser or to the party who reserved it, and is subject to being seized and sold for non-payment of taxes, after a certain amount of time, the same as a surface ownership. There is a requirement to update ownership of these rights upon inheritance, the same as surface. There is no reason to be attacking owners of the mineral (and/or oil and gas) rights in West Virginia.

Please let West Virginia owners decide for themselves about this issue.

Permalink Reply by Bernie Lombard III on December 3, 2011 at 4:25pm

not all counties are billing the owners.  If they are not maintaining their obligations on the mineral rights then it should go back to the land owners.   The mineral owners can allow any one to come on to our property and destroy it to get the minerals with out any say from the land owner so why should not the land owner get first rights of the minerals.  

Permalink Reply by brinlady on December 4, 2011 at 1:14am

Thank you, Nancy

 

Brinlady

Permalink Reply by Nancy Mosley on December 4, 2011 at 6:47am

You're welcome!

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